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Pakistan Country profile

General Overview

Official Name : Islami Republic of Pakistan

Capital : Islamabad

Largest City : Karachi

Population : 153 million (UN Estimate)

Total Area : 796,095 km2 (36th) 307,374
sq miles

Currency : Pakistan Rupee (Rs)

Official language : Urdu

Regional languages Balochi, Pashto, Punjabi,
Saraiki, Sindhi

Pakistan tourism had suffered the hardest in 2011.
There were some groups from Japan and other countries in the north eastern
region of Gilgit Baltistan. An estimate is that about 5000 tourists have visited
Pakistan in 2011.

2012 Looks a bit better as the security situation
in Pakistan has improved. Comparing to 2010 there were less than half
causalities in the country related to terrorist attacks and in 2012 the
government has taken good measures to control the threats of security in the
country. This has overall impacted positively on the tourism industry of
Pakistan.

Arrival Targets for 2012

Governemnt had a major change in the tourism
department last year. Now the tourism has become a mater of individual
provinces. Till the writing of this report none of the tourism Authorities have
announced any targets or expectations.

The only active Private firm “Travel & Culture
Services” has set their own target for arrivals which is around 8000 foreign
tourist during 2012 an about 10000 local domestic tourists.

Climate

Pakistan mainly is a warm country specially during
the main peak tourist season. However it is a country that offer complete four
seasons starting with blossom to the change of colors in Autumn

Best time to Visit

Pakistan offers a holiday for any season. The
Northern Pakistan, which offer high mountain valleys history and culture, is
ideal between March & September while southern Pakistan, which offer history
culture and beauty is ideal from September to March.

Distances

Pakistan is fairly a large country the major
cities of the country are Karachi Lahore Islamabad Peshawar and Quetta while
there are also other places that are located at different distances and are
worth visiting. Following is the chart of Distances in Pakistan.

To & From

Distance

To & From

Distance

Karacho to Lahore

1200

Karachi to Sukkur

500

Karachi to Multan

800

Karachi to Hyderabad

170

Multan to Lahore

348

Lahore to Islamabad

288 & 330

Lahore to Murree

338

Lahore to Faisalabad

143

Lahore to Mirpur AJK

211

Lahore to Sargodha

172

Lahore to Sialkot

112

Lahore to Sukkur

802

Islamabad to Peshawar

180

Islamaabd to Abbottabad

120

Islamabad to Besham

275

Islamabad to Muzaffarabad

138

Islamabad to Murree

64

Islamabad to Jehlam

120

Islamaabd to Kohat

185

Islamabad to Saidu Sharief

268

Islamaabd to Gilgit

610

Islamaabd to Skardu

750

Gilgit to Hunza

100

Gilgit to Chilas

130

Gilgit to Skardu

176

Gilgit to Chitral

200

Hotels in Pakistan

With tourism in general hotels have also been hit
hard due to the security situation. No new hotels came during the year 2011. The
existing star hotels have also remained static and the rates were somewhat
unchanged since the beginning of 2011 till the end.

Pakistani hotels offer special rates to
touroperators based on the volume they produce. Usually the rates remain
unchanged except for any special event when the hotels are fully booked.